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The substance abuse prevention education program D.A.R.E. says it has not changed its stance against marijuana after it accidentally published a post supporting its legalization. The post, titled "Purchasing marijuana puts kids at risk," was a letter to the editor published in The Columbus Dispatch on Monday.

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Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul on Thursday blamed rival Donald Trump's rise in popularity on a temporary "loss of sanity." Appearing on CNN's "The Situation Room," the Kentucky senator was asked to comment on a new national poll showing Mr. Trump still ahead in the GOP field.

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A North Carolina man was forced to put his carefully planned marriage proposal on hold and jump into action at a restaurant on Monday after a man busted in and tried to rob the place. Nicholas Anderson worked with his future stepson to plan the perfect proposal for Deanna Deal at Salsarita's Fresh Cantina restaurant in Hickory, a local NBC affiliate reported.

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Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz was at a loss for words Thursday night after MSNBC's Chris Matthews pressed her on the differences between Democrats and socialists.

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Philadelphia Police are investigating after vandals toppled 124 headstones at a historic Jewish cemetery. The groundskeeper of Adath Jeshurun Cemetery, located in the city's Frankford section, arrived about 6 a.m. Thursday to find that dozens of grave markers had been knocked off their bases and toppled over, a local NBC affiliate reported.

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Actor James Woods on Wednesday filed a $10 million defamation lawsuit against a Twitter user who called him a "cocaine addict." The actor is suing an anonymous individual who tweeted under the account, "Abe List," which is now deleted.

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A former JCPenney employee has created an online firestorm after she claimed she was sent home for wearing "too revealing" shorts, which she bought in the store's career section. "I was at work for about 10 minutes before [my boss] approached me," Sylva Stoel, 17, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, told Today.com.

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Woody Allen 's controversial marriage to his ex-girlfriend's adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn was supposed to be nothing more than a "fling," he revealed Wednesday. "I started the relationship with her and I thought it would just be a fling, it wouldn't be serious," Mr. Allen, 79, told NPR.